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             Husband: Samuel Lewis DOWNS (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)
                Born: l 1805 (10)
             Married:
                Died: 28 AUG 1874 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (11 12 13)
              Father: Felix DOWNS
              Mother: Phebe DOWNS
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Julianna DOWNS (14 15 16 17 18 19)
                Born: l 1810 (20)
                Died: 16 JUL 1882 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (21 22)
              Father: Jareb Lyman DOWNS
              Mother: Amy SPERRY
             Spouses:
Children
01               (?): DOWNS
                Born: l 1836
                Died: 18 NOV 1837
              Buried: in Gunntown Cemetery, Naugatuck, New Haven, CT
             Spouses: 
02               (F): Sarah R. DOWNS (23 24 25 26 27)
                Born: 06 FEB 1839 (28 29)
                Died:
             Spouses: William H. BAILEY
03               (M): Franklin L. DOWNS (30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38)
                Born: l 1842 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (39)
                Died: 23 FEB 1908 in Middlebury, New Haven, CT
             Spouses: Charlotte Elizabeth SMITH
04               (M): William Alonzo DOWNS (40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47)
                Born: MAY 1843 (48)
                Died:
             Spouses: Augusta Nancy SMITH
05               (F): Mary Elizabeth DOWNS (49 50 51 52)
                Born: l 1847 (53)
                Died:
             Spouses: >>>
06               (?): infant DOWNS
                Born:
                Died: 15 JAN 1851
              Buried: in Gunntown Cemetery, Naugatuck, New Haven, CT
             Spouses: 
07               (M): Eldridge DOWNS (54 55 56 57 58 59)
                Born: SEP 1852 (60)
                Died:
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. 1840 Oxford Census.
    Lewis.
  2. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  3. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Lewis / Farmer.
  4. 1870 Naugatuck Census.
    Farmer.
  5. 1856 Oxford Map (Unidentified, found in collection of Oxford Historical Society by Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Municipal Historian).
    [ 'L. Downs', Chestnut Tree Hill Road, just south of Gunntown Road.
    http://oxfordpast.net/map.html.]
  6. 1852 Oxford Map (Unidentified, found in collection of Oxford Historical Society by Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Municipal Historian.").
    [ 'L. Downs', Chestnut Tree Hill Road, just south of Gunntown Road.
    http://oxfordpast.net/map.html.]
  7. F. W. Beers, 1868 map (Reproduced for the Oxford Historical Society, Inc. 1977).
    [Excerpt from1868 map, Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm
    S Downs at the Oxford/Naugatuck line.
    http://www.oxfordpast.net/1868GunntownArea.jpg.]
  8. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
    ... They lived on Chestnut Tree Hill road ...
  9. Ibid., 119.
    Lewis and Julianna Downs.
  10. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 580.
  11. Ibid., vol 3, p 580.
  12. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 123.
    Samuel L. Downs, d. Aug. 28, 1874, aged 69 years.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/123.html.]
  13. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
  14. 1850 Oxford Census.
  15. 1860 Oxford Census.
  16. 1870 Naugatuck Census.
  17. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Living w/ son Eldridge.
  18. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
  19. Ibid., 119.
    Lewis and Julianna Downs.
  20. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 580.
  21. Ibid., vol 3, p 580.
  22. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
  23. 1850 Oxford Census.
  24. 1870 Hamden Census.
  25. 1880 Oxford Census.
  26. 1900 Naugatuck Census.
    Main Street.
  27. 1910 Naugatuck Census.
  28. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
  29. 1900 Naugatuck Census.
    May 1840.
  30. 1850 Oxford Census.
  31. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farming.
  32. 1870 Naugatuck Census.
    Farmer.
    [Franklin and Charlotte are living w/ his parents.]
  33. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Works on a farm.
  34. 1900 Middlebury Census.
    [Divorced. Boarder at the home of Elizabeth M. Nichols and her mother Harriet (Cook) Roberts.]
  35. Family.
    [Divorce Record photograph Courtesy of Alan Downs
    http://oxfordpast.net/doc15156b.jpg.]
  36. Ibid.
    Death Record photograph Courtesy of Alan Downs
    http://oxfordpast.net/doc15156a.jpg.
  37. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 121.
  38. Ibid., 117.
  39. 1850 Oxford Census.
  40. Ibid.
    William A.
  41. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Alonzo.
  42. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Farm Laborer.
    [Next to Electa Van DeBogart.]
  43. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  44. 1900 Southbury Census.
    Farmer.
  45. 1910 Southbury Census.
    Farmer.
    [Living alone.]
  46. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117, 119.
    ... Resides in Southford ...
  47. Ibid., 119.
    Lonso.
  48. 1900 Southbury Census.
  49. 1850 Oxford Census.
  50. 1860 Oxford Census.
  51. 1870 Naugatuck Census.
  52. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
  53. 1850 Oxford Census.
  54. 1860 Oxford Census.
  55. 1870 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ Robert Downs.]
  56. 1880 Oxford Census.
    [His mother is living w/ him, and a 12 year old nephew, Burton Downs.]
  57. 1900 Oxford Census.
    [Robert Downs is living w/ him.]
  58. 1910 Oxford Census.
    Chestnut Tree Hill / Farmer / Own Farm.
    [Living alone.]
  59. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
    ... Chestnut Tree Hill road ...
  60. 1900 Oxford Census.

Revised: 19-Oct-08
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